Programme
All posters will be viewed during the whole time of the conference. Please, place your poster immediately after arrival and dismount it not earlier than after the CLOSING LECTURE.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
15:00 - 22:00 REGISTRATION
18:00 - 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION - GARDEN PARTY
THE OPENING
19:30 - 19:35 Marek Cieplak
Introduction
19:35 - 20:20 Jayanth R. Banavar
The geometry of life
20:20 - 22:00 DINNER AT BONFIRE
Thursday, May 14, 2015
BIOMOLECULAR COMPLEXES
Chair: Anna Niedzwiecka
9:00 - 9:30 Magda Konarska
The spliceosome: What it is, how does it work, and where did it come from?
9:30 - 10:00 Elizabeth Komives
Functional consequences of disorder in the NFkB signaling pathway
10:00 - 10:30 Marcin Nowotny
Molecular mechanisms in DNA repair and recombination
10:30 - 10:45 Maciej Jasinski
Interactions of 2'-O-methyl RNA oligomers with the ribosomal RNA A-site
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)
NUCLEIC ACIDS
Chair: Jayanth R. Banavar
11:15 - 11:45 Koby Levy
Transient interactions between proteins and DNA and their role in regulatory processes
11:45 - 12:15 Arkadiusz Chworos
Synthetic RNA nanoparticles: their structure and function
12:15 - 12:45 Trinh Xuan Hoang
Modeling DNA condensates
12:45 - 13:00 Maciej Maciejczyk
DNA duplex formation with dipolar-bead coarse-grained model
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH
BIOMEMBRANES
Chair: Andrzej Sienkiewicz
14:30 - 15:00 Marta Pasenkiewicz-Gierula
Self-organisation of cholesterol in water
15:00 - 15:30 Jaroslaw Majewski
Neutron and X-ray scattering studies of bio-interfaces: from model lipid membranes to living cell cultures under flow stress
15:30 - 15:50 Horia Petrache
Van der Waals and electrostatic interactions in lipid membranes
15:50 - 16:05 COFFEE BREAK (short)
BIOMOLECULES AT INTERFACES
Chair: Koby Levy
16:05 - 16:35 Damien Thompson
Tuning the strength of van der Waals interactions in organic-inorganic interfaces
16:35 - 17:05 Anna Mitraki
From protein folding to self-assembling bionanomaterials and applications
17:05 - 17:20 Katarzyna Gajos
DNA arrays on biotin-streptavidin system
17:20 - 17:35 COFFEE BREAK (short)
PROTEINS
Chair: Annalisa Pastore
17:35 - 18:05 Emmanuel Levy
Protein super-assemblies are frequently visited during the course of evolution
18:05 - 18:20 Albert Perez-Riba
The effect of loop insertion on the folding of tandem-repeat protein
18:20 - 18:40 Tomasz Wlodarski
Co-translational folding
18:40 - 18:55 Mateusz Chwastyk
Pathways of folding of knotted proteins and the effects of co-translation
19:00 - 20:00 DINNER
20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION I (odd numbers)
Friday, May 15, 2015
MULTIDOMAIN AND MULTIMERIC PROTEINS
Chair: Magda Konarska
9:00 - 9:30 Laura Itzhaki
Tandem-repeat proteins: regularity plus modularity equals design-ability
9:30 - 10:00 Kerensa Broersen
Tuning the architecture of amyloid beta fibrils
10:00 - 10:30 Patricia Clark
Assembly of diverse proteins into stable, macroscopic, rope-like fibers
10:30 - 10:45 Alexander P. M. Guttenplan
Amyloid fibrils for biomaterials
10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (short)
SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES AND BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS
Chair: Chris Johnson
11:00 - 11:30 Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Tracking the activity of protein translocases at the single-molecule level
11:30 - 12:00 Hannes Neuweiler
Dynamics of a spider silk protein revealed by single-molecule fluorescence quenching
12:00 - 12:20 Arek Kulczyk
Single-molecule studies of the replisome structure and dynamics
12:20 - 12:40 Papia Chowdhury
Indole based bioprobe inside cyclodextrin cavity
12:40 - 19:00 LUNCH AND TIME FOR AN EXCURSION TO CRACOW
19:00 - 20:00 DINNER
20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION II (even numbers)
Saturday, May 16, 2015
PROTEINS I
Chair: Elisabeth Komives
9:00 - 9:30 Pier-Andrea Temussi
The role of cold denaturation in assessing protein stability
9:30 - 10:00 Piotr Cieplak
Substrates recognition by matrix metalloproteinases
10:00 - 10:30 Mariusz Jaskolski
PR-10 proteins as versatile phytohormone binders
10:30 - 10:45 Aleksandra Skrajna
HDXMS in structural studies on the FLASH-LSM11 and FLASH-NPAT complexes
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)
PROTEINS II
Chair: Michael Feig
11:15 - 11:45 Andrzej Kloczkowski
Fractal properties of proteins
11:45 - 12:15 Wladek Minor
Reproducibility in structural biology
12:15 - 12:35 Annett Bachmann
Crystal structures of thioxylated ribonuclease S
12:35 - 12:50 Joanna Sulkowska
Tadpoles: new entangled motifs in proteins
12:50 - 13:05 Aiswarya Premchandar
Cross-coiling patterns and crucial regions of contact during vimentin fibrillogenesis as revealed by HDXMS
13:05 - 14:30 LUNCH
METHODS IN PROTEIN SCIENCE
Chair: Patricia Clark
14:30 - 15:00 Ceslovas Venclovas
Interatomic contact areas as a means for the analysis and assessment of protein 3D structure
15:00 - 15:20 Sebastian Kmiecik
Protein-peptide docking
15:20 - 15:35 Przemyslaw Porebski
Automatic modeling of side chain conformations
15:35 - 15:50 Ksenia Maximova
Isothermal titration calorimetry as a method to study enzyme kinetics and inhibition. Trypsin catalyzed hydrolysis.
15:50 - 16:10 Jacek Achrem-Achremowicz, Wyatt
Quantifying the affinity and stoichiometry of an antibody-antigen interaction using Composition Gradient - Multi-Angle static Light Scattering (CG-MALS)
16:10 - 16:30 Piotr Wardega, NanoTemper
Quantitative analysis of biomolecular interactions with Microscale Thermophoresis (MST)
16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK (long)
FINALE
Chair: Marek Cieplak
17:00 - 17:30 Christopher J. Russo
Controlling protein adsorption on suspended graphene for electron cryomicroscopy
17:30 - 18:00 Malgorzata Lekka
Mechanosensing by normal and cancerous cells
18:00 - 18:30 Michael Hinczewski
Gripping tales of cellular adhesion: design principles of catch bonds
CLOSING LECTURE
18:30 - 19:00 Michael Feig
Structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules at cellular scales
19:30 - CONFERENCE BANQUET
Sunday, May 17, 2015
BREAKFAST AND DEPARTURE
10:00 - Group transportation to Krakow Main Train Station